Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing has become one of the most important methods used to quickly and directly acquire information on, above, or even below the Earth’s surface without direct contact with the objects examined. According to a new market intelligence report by BIS Research, the nano satellite market is expected to reach $356.1 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 13.43%. In recent years, remote sensing technologies have been applied widely in meteorology, climate change detection, environmental monitoring, flood prediction, agriculture, resource explorations, mapping, and so on. The requirements of different investigations have increased the heterogeneity and diversity of sensing devices. For example, a satellite can be classified as an optical satellite, microwave satellite, or multimode satellite. Meanwhile, the acquired sensing data are growing in volume, with a ground station’s daily data accumulation being able to reach the terabyte level. Hence, how to leverage such a huge number of devices to process/transmit large volumes of data to analyze and present them in the form of final knowledge is an important issue in the remote sensing field.

Communication and networking in remote sensing systems directly influence the acquired results and system overhead. Regardless of whether the transmission data captured are figures or device control commands, communication between different devices requires the support of efficient networks and protocols. Advanced communication and networking technologies should consider the geo-distribution of heterogeneous sensing devices, the mobility of potential smart sensors, the application of software-defined networking (SDN), the high bandwidth requirement, the overhead of massive data transmission, the tradeoff between communication and computation, the reliability/scalability of the network, and so on. The Special Issue aims to collect articles about recent research, experimental work, reviews, and/or case studies related to the field of communication and networking in remote sensing. Contributions may be focused on but not limited to the following topics:

• Communication technologies in remote sensing;
• Advanced networking technologies (e.g., SDN, specialized network) in remote sensing;
• Network building in extreme environment;
• Testbed and simulators for communication and networking in RS;
• Performance evaluation and benchmarks for communication and networking in RS;
• Security and privacy in communication and networking;
• Communication model and protocols in RS;
• Communication and networking resource management in RS;
• Application of advanced technologies in RS;
• Communication and networking service design and implementation in RS.

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• Communication
• Networking
• Performance evaluation
• Data processing
• Data transmission
• Sensors
• Sustainable system
• Security and privacy